If you think you have a grip on how the world works, this book will help bring you back down to earth. maybe.

Perhaps it's because I am not so smart, as the book kept reminding me, but this was a tough one to get thorough without my mind wandering away every few minutes. I have a long commute, so listen to audiobooks while driving, and this one...something about the tone and lulling cadence of the narrator's voice coupled with stat after stat from endless experiments...I had a hard time NOT wanting to sleep. While driving! Some of the chapters were interesting, some had interesting points but kept repeating the same thing constantly. So, I get it, I'm not smart. For someone deeply interested in psychology, human behavior, or related topics from a research PoV, this is a great listen. For someone who wants to learn but is just a layperson listener, it's dry and a bit of a snooze.

I felt ir was a great psychological compilation eff though if the author kept saying "but then again, you're not so smart"....

muy interesante, te muestra las formas como analizamos y reaccionamos ante situaciones de todos los dias.

Interesting read, now I have to write fifteen words or more. Four more to go.

Once you come to an understanding that the book is basically a bundling of blog posts, it becomes possible to overlook the brief cavalier tone of each short chapter. McRaney is not breaking any new ground here, nor does he claim to. He is digesting a lot of the newest psychological research out there and repackaging it into short pithy summaries. He does it well, overall. He has an entertaining style, and he gets the gist of most things down fairly accurately. Accurately enough for most purposes.

The book's strength ultimately becomes its weakness. Because it is just recycling all the currently available information, it does not actually add anything to the conversation. If you're looking for a quick and entertaining roundup of what's new in psychology, this book fills the bill very nicely. If you're looking for an in depth treatment of a particular area, or an understanding of the implications or possible ways of mitigating the consequences, you'll want to look somewhere else.

I really enjoyed the insights into our behavior and how we trick ourselves into
thinking we are smarter than we really are. We are controlled by false memory,
ego, visual clues and pure manipulation. I hope this helps me become more aware
of how I make decisions and how to improve self talk.

Certainly worth the investment in time..

The texas sharp shooter story is really about creating our own history or memory and so much of it is simply not accurate.

Fun and down to earth

A x-ray into your behavior

I enjoyed this book tremendously. My only critique is that some chapters were what seemed to be just sentences long, while others were hours. Each chapter seemed to be written mostly independent of the others, which led to some awkward repetition at times.
Still, I highly recommend it.

An interesting book worth listening to if you are interested in basic Psychology or Sociology

This book tells you why you don't have a clue why you are doing what you are doing. Didn't want it to end. Perfectly narrated.